World-renowned surgeon Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed speaks to Chico audience

Dr. Glenn Geelhoed, MD, FACS, spoke on the topic of Surgery and Healing in the Developing World to a group of friends and volunteers of Project SAVE on March 8th, in Chico, CA.

Dr. Geelhoed credited Project SAVE with providing much-needed medical supplies and equipment to many of his overseas missions. 

Find out more about Dr. Geelhoed below, or on his website.

Chico Project SAVE volunteers load a shipment bound for Africa with the help of Dr. Geelhoed (pictured here), learning to use a pallet jack. 

The supplies were bound mainly for the Sudan and Chad, where Dr. Geelhoed works with the "Lost Boys Clinic", which he helped establish.

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MORE ABOUT DR. GLENN GEELHOED

Glenn W. Geelhoed, MD, FACS, of Washington, DC, delivers surgical care and education throughout the world.

Each year, Dr. Geelhoed assembles up to eight surgical missions, with teams of medical students, residents, and physicians. Over his career, he has led more than 200 such missions to Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, and South America, and has inspired countless others to take up the mantle.

Since 1975, his academic base has been George Washington University, where he is Professor of International Medicine. In 1996, he established the African Regional Research Program; currently, he is developing an international health center and international medical education program for the university.